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Bad Marie

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Zusatztext "Marie! the protagonist of Marcy Dermansky's witty! disturbing new novel! is almost completely unlikable! and yet stands out as one of the more interesting characters in recent fiction....Before you know it! the book becomes a skillfully paced page-turner...weirdly hilarious...nothing if not captivating." Informationen zum Autor Marcy Dermansky is a MacDowell Fellow and the winner of the 2002 Smallmouth Press Andre Dubus Novella Award and the 1999 Story magazine’s Carson McCullers short story prize. Her stories have been published in numerous literary journals, including McSweeney’s , Alaska Quarterly Review , and Indiana Review . Dermansky is a film critic for About.com and lives in Astoria, New York. Klappentext Bad Marie is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is as a nanny for her childhood friend Ellen Kendall, an upwardly mobile Manhattan executive whose mother employed Marie's mother as a housekeeper. After Marie moves in with Ellen, Ellen's angelic baby Caitlin, and Ellen's husband, a very attractive French novelist named Benoit Doniel, things get complicated, and almost before she knows what she's doing, Marie has absconded to Paris with both Caitlin and Benoit Doniel. On the run and out of her depth, Marie will travel to distant shores and experience the highs and lows of foreign culture, lawless living, and motherhood as she figures out how to be an adult; how deeply she can love; and what it truly means to be "bad". Zusammenfassung “Reading Marcy Dermansky’s Bad Marie is like spending a rainy afternoon in a smaller! older movie theater watching a charming French movie with a woman (or a man) you’ve just met on the street and already like far too much. It’s sinful in all the right ways! delicate! seditious! and deliciously evil.” — Frederick Barthelme “Dermansky excels at depicting extreme emotional states and how we rationalize them.” — Village Voice From the critically-acclaimed author of Twins ! Marcy Dermansky! comes a highly original novel of Manhattan! Paris! and Mexico; of love and motherhood; and of life on the lam. Fans of Heather O’Neill ( Lullabies for Little Criminals ) and A.M. Homes ( Music for Torching ) will revel in the wicked delights of Bad Marie . ...

Product details

Authors Marcy Dermansky, Dermansky Marcy
Publisher Harper Perennial USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 22.06.2010
 
EAN 9780061914713
ISBN 978-0-06-191471-3
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 134 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Crime, FICTION: Thrillers / Domestic, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Thrillers / Psychological, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Romance / New Adult

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